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Mon Oct 22, 2012, 04:41 PM Oct 2012

Even Fox News Admits That Mitt Romney's Tax Plan Doesn't Add Up

By Remington Shepard, posted on AlterNet.org, October 22, 2012


A Fox business host has admitted that it isn't possible to calculate how GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's plan would be paid for.

Independent fact-checkers and experts say that Romney's tax plan, a $5 trillion dollar tax cut that would largely benefit the wealthiest Americans offset by closing undisclosed loopholes, doesn't add up. The Romney campaign has responded by saying one possible way to pay for the tax plan is to cap the total amount of deductions a taxpayer can take. Experts have said that even with such a deduction cap, Romney's plan still doesn't add up .

And in a rare moment of truth for Fox, Fox Business host Stuart Varney admitted: "I cannot calculate how much money would be brought in" by Romney's plan.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/even-fox-news-admits-mitt-romneys-tax-plan-doesnt-add
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One of them learned how to use Excel or a pocket calculator? DFW Oct 2012 #1

DFW

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1. One of them learned how to use Excel or a pocket calculator?
Mon Oct 22, 2012, 04:48 PM
Oct 2012

Better late than never, I suppose............

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